Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , he agreed to stay away rather than run the risk of provoking incidents on the terraces . |
| 2 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 3 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 4 | Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling . |
| 5 | Then she thought perhaps Pat is dead now , perhaps he has died even now while we have been watching this dreadful absurdity . |
| 6 | I think he has to I think he has to think very seriously before he starts to decry the achievements of this nation . |
| 7 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 8 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 9 | He learnt to eat tidily later than most children , and the mess down his front was hard for the others to bear . |
| 10 | Ciccolini is better in the more vigourous pieces , but even here he tends to play less softly than he should where Debussy marks pianissimo so that we do not get the full dynamic range needed . |
| 11 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
| 12 | He started to travel as slowly as possible in the hope that the King would change his mind . |
| 13 | He decided to start as softly as possible . |
| 14 | ‘ He managed to get almost there while I was fighting a rearguard and desperate battle with the bull . |
| 15 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
| 16 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |
| 17 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 18 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 19 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 20 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 21 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 22 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 23 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 24 | Player told the crowd that Olazabal was the best young player in the world and that he was quite impressed with the way he had scored so well while playing so poorly . |
| 25 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 26 | He had to knock twice more before Mitch heard and opened up . |
| 27 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 28 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 29 | He had worked tremendously hard since his arrival in Britain , first to bring over his family and then to buy his own house . |
| 30 | ‘ How was I supposed to know ? ’ he said , instantly aware that he had acted too hastily because he had been so angry with her . |